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High photon number path entanglement in the interference of spontaneously downconverted photon pairs with coherent laser light

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 Added by Holger F. Hofmann
 Publication date 2007
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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We show that the quantum interference between downconverted photon pairs and photons from coherent laser light can produce a maximally path entangled N-photon output component with a fidelity greater than 90% for arbitrarily high photon numbers. A simple beam splitter operation can thus transform the 2-photon coherence of down-converted light into an almost optimal N-photon coherence.



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